Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This type of thing becomes even more serious as students progress into the so-called higher mathematics which is the fundamental tool through which an engineering manurance is wrought. The same abstract treatment with enormously increasing demand upon memory rather than a procedure which would develop a true physical concept of the matters handled is continued and, indeed, the algebraic complication, the rapidity with which the subject is presented and the enormous amount of matter covered make it virtually impossible for men without excellent memories to pass their mathematics examination...
...were told was the oppression of white landowners. One Ralph Gray was posted outside as a picket. Inside, the management of the meeting was taken over by a black Communist from Chattanooga. He represented, he said, the "Society for the Advancement of Colored People." He told his auditors to demand social equality and white intermarriage. If they did not get what they demanded, they were to take it anyway...
...France's demand that control be established over German customs as one of the conditions in French participation in a loan to Germany will not be acceptable to the British Government...
Action is the simple program of the Revisionists, who are Dr. Weizmann's most violent opponents. They demand a national, autonomous Jewish state in Palestine. Zion, say they, may try once more to ''play the game" with England, but let no one think (as does Dr. Weizmann) that the present situation is in the least bearable. Organizer and leader of the Revisionists is 50-year-old Russian-born Vladimir Jabotinsky. Kinetic, rambunctious, romantic, he is called the Hitler, the Mussolini of young Zionists. Round-faced, bespectacled, he is a poet and international journalist. He founded the Jewish...
...Scotland, where men are men, men recalled last week the last time that John ("I demand Justice") McGovern got into trouble in English London...